I feel better!

[Barbee]

It's been so nice here this weekend! I got my corn and tomato patches worked up and ready to go. Sweet corn will be planted tomorrow. I have been itching to plant tomatoes. It is too early though. So today, I cleaned up my patio planter and planted 2 cherry tomatoes in it. They have a big cage over the planter so I can cover them if need be easy peasy.
Now I feel much better

[Barbee]

Replying to my own post
We ended up planting some corn tonight. Here's a pic

I have more pics showing the finished field, etc., but will post those in the photo gallery.

[robin303]

Isn't that cheating using that tractor.

[Barbee]

Ha! Would you rather we hitch up a mule or something?

[Ruth_10]

I, too, am itching to get things in the ground. I did put four tomato plants in yesterday--I have backups, so not too much risked. I would have put more in today, but the wind! It's been 20-40 mph for the last three days straight. Temps have been in the mid eighties. I put milk carton type crates over the tomato plants to give them some protection from both sun and wind. If I hadn't had the crates on hand I wouldn't have put them out, not with that much wind.

I have my brassicas and onions in the ground but covered with floating row cover, more to protect from wind and critters than from cold weather. My peas--a moment of silence, please. Even with chicken wire fencing around them, something has been getting in and topping the plants.

The asparagus is in full production. I swear that stuff grows two inches, minimum, a day. Poor DH and I have to eat it for dinner every night.

[Barbee]

I put some burlap on the wind side of the tomato cage, as we are getting that nasty wind too. I have been trying to wheel my poor little seedlings around the house to block the wind while they're hardening off.
Bummer about the peas. I haven't even attempted peas since we moved to this place. So many rabbits, I figured peas would be a buffet for them.
Asparagus is something I've never grown, but boy I love it. I may have to put that on my list to try next year.

[Ruth_10]

Barbee,
You really should plant some asparagus. It's early, it's delicious, and the rabbits and deer don't eat it. (Asparagus beetles find it lickety-split, but don't seem to have much consequence--I don't try to do anything about them anymore.)

[Barbee]

Asparagus needs a permanent home, right? I could make a raised bed this year and buy some .......hmm........do you buy it in the spring or fall?

[piegirl]

Barbee - gorgeous looking soil and setting - I could plants 100's and 100's of tomatoes. You plant asparagus in the spring - not too late if you find the plants. We finally had rain so mine should bulk up a little - it has been very thin and sparse but always tasty. My peas are 4-6", rhubarb nearly ready, and baskets of fall planted spinach. With eggs from a friend's farm, asparagus quiche, spinach quiche and salads. Life is good. Piegirl

[Barbee]

I think I'll concentrate on getting the bed ready this summer since it is permanent. Hard to rush those things as you only have to redo it if you miss a step LoL I didn't get my lettuce bed planted this year due to a wet early spring. Hopefully next year, I'll be back on track. I like wilted lettuce
We have a very large place and I'd plant lots more tomatoes if I thought i could eat them or give them away. It just breaks my heart to see food go to waste. Which is probably why I'm fat